Tracking storms over the weekend

TODAY: Thursday starts clear and crisp again, with lows in the low-to-mid 60s again. Winds are variable and relatively calm through the day with mostly sunny skies in the morning, before becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs climb back into the mid-80s.

TONIGHT: Skies clear overnight, and winds shift out of the south.

EXTENDED: By sunrise Friday, we'll see clouds approaching from the north. This will likely be ahead of a line of showers from storms that developed to our northwest Thursday night along a cold front. Some remnant activity is possible during the morning hours in the west, but another round of storms likely develops later Friday along and ahead of the cold front. This will bring a chance for isolated strong storms in our northwestern counties before weakening overnight. As the front makes progress eastward, the chance for an isolated strong storm likely translates east of highway 63 by Saturday. Chances for scattered storms remain both days. Highs are in the mid-80s on Friday, and cool into the low 80s behind the front the rest of the weekend. Rain likely exits for Sunday, and we spend the rest of the next 7 days partly cloudy to mostly sunny as this system exits eastward. Highs remain cooler than normal through the rest of the forecast.